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Waukesha County Court Roundup: June 20 to June 24

The following people were sentenced in Waukesha County Circuit Court this week for violations committed in Waukesha. All the people were arrested by the Waukesha Police Department. All information was found through the Wisconsin Consolidated Court Access.

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Aimee E. Dean, 29, of Waukesha, disorderly conduct, $210.80 fine.

Criminal Traffic

Evaristo Rodriguez Sanchez, 48, of Waukesha, operate without a license (second offense within three years), $379 fine (Judge James Kieffer) Amy M. Payne, 27, of Waukesha, operating while intoxicated-third offense, 180 days in jail, driver’s license revoked for three years, $2,182 fine (Judge Mark Gundrum) Walter W. Guzman Lopez, 31, of Waukesha, operating while revoked, $394 fine (Judge Kathleen Stilling)

Misdemeanors

Jason D. Klug, of Waukesha, 38, disorderly conduct-domestic abuse, $343 fine, 90 days jail time served (Judge William Domina) Fred D. Manuel, 25, of Milwaukee, disorderly conduct-domestic abuse, $479 fine, 90 days in jail (Judge Mark Gundrum) Justin T. Zimmerman, 28, of Oconomowoc, disorderly conduct-domestic abuse, one year of probation, $383 in costs (Judge James Kieffer) Richard M. Babio, 22, possession of drug paraphernalia, 20 days in jail, $243 fine (Judge Mark Gundrum) Sergio C. Garay, 45, of Milwaukee, criminal trespass to dwelling-domestic abuse, 18 months probation, 10 days jail, $353 fine (Judge Kathleen Stilling) Karen K. Thundercloud, 53, of Waukesha, disorderly conduct-domestic abuse, $683 fine (Judge James Kieffer) Davina S. Barkley, 30, of Milwaukee, disorderly conduct (repeat offender), two years of probation with four months jail, $243 fine (Judge Mark Gundrum) Stephen D. Ransom, 23, of Mukwonago, two counts of criminal damage to property (probation revoked June 22), four months jail, owes $432.54 in fines. Robert A. Gier, 43, of Mukwonago, resisting or obstructing an officer, $442 fine (Judge William Domina)

Felonies

Alberto N. Reyes, 33, of Waukesha, possession of marijuana-second offense, one year of probation. (Judge Kathleen Stilling) Michael S.

Spingola Files » Reason, Not Demagoguery, Needed on Police Pay Issue

The issue for many outside of law enforcement, including journalists, is difficult to understand; however, when it comes to “pay” for “fired” Milwaukee police officers, the facts are rarely explained well by members of the media, including those in talk-radio. 

http://www.jsonline.com/news/opinion/124217314.html

Officers are fired for a variety of reasons.  In most instances, when a termination proceeding is initiated, an officer is convicted of a crime.  I find this somewhat ironic since a handful of police departments in Wisconsin actually hire applicants with minor criminal convictions (disorderly conduct or first offense OWI, which in most states is a misdemeanor).

Being Wisconsin’s only Class A city—defined by state law as a municipality with a population of over 500,000—many state laws applicable to Milwaukee do not affect other cities, villages or towns.  This is why political leaders out-state often refer to Wisconsin’s only Class A city as ‘the State of Milwaukee.’

The administration of police departments, as well as the disciplinary process involving police officers, is tied to Milwaukee’s Class A designation.  Unfortunately, some in the media—those with a rather noticeable bias against Milwaukee officers—have contorted and twisted the issue to the point that requires a reasoned explanation.  

For whatever reason—one that has never been fully explained—the Milwaukee Police Department’s chief of police is the only leader of a municipal law enforcement agency in Wisconsin that can subjectively and arbitrarily fire a police officer.  In all other municipal jurisdictions, a police chief can simply recommend to their respective police and fire commissions that an officer be terminated.  These commissions then conduct a just cause hearing to affirm the police chief’s recommendation or collectively confer to make their own disciplinary recommendations.  However, police officers from every other municipal jurisdiction receive their pay throughout the hearing process. 

The way the law now stands, police officers in Milwaukee are the ONLY officers in the state that immediately forfeit salary based on the arbitrary and subjective findings of their police chief.

Some left-wing police haters, fiscal conservatives, and country club types, you know the crowd—those that sit on their confortable suburban patios sipping cocktails, while lacking the intestinal fortitude required to patrol Milwaukee’s inner city—could care less.  They argue two points:  that officers are rarely fired without cause and that fired officers can receive back pay if they are reinstated by the Fire and Police Commission.

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